Archive for July, 2010
gratitude monday 7/26
I’m so grateful this morning.
[This is negative gratitude, gratitude for what has receded, is abating. Sometimes this is as good as it gets!]
I am so grateful that the headache and disorientation is abating after the assault Saturday night. Someone held a Rave around the corner from my house — maybe 200 yards from my bed ...Read more.
gratitude Monday 7/19
It was such a beautiful weekend!!!
Yesterday, I had set aside the whole entire day for the beach. Was gonna go with Ladybug and family to Half Moon Bay, but decided I didn’t want to do a full day. Instead, I had a lazy Sunday morning, and then went to Lindy in the Park and danced ...Read more.
gratitude thursday 7/15
Okay, calm down. Breathe. Six weeks is plenty of time.
What’s left to do to prepare for my trip?
Finalize places to sleep in Kildare and Cork
Figure out $$$ stuff: which ATMs to use, which bank will forgive the most fees
Print out all confirmations and maps, complete travel books
What to bring, what to wear!!
iPhone GPS or just ...Read more.
GratiTuesday 7/13
Forgiveness. Forgiveness. Self-forgiveness. So happily doing errands today. So blithely not registering the No Parking signs! $63 ticket! Jeeze.
Only thing to do: grats
I’m grateful to be safe
No harm to body or car
I have the $ for the ticket
This has no power over my state of mind
It’s a beautiful day
I’m sober
Business is good
I am blessed ...Read more.
gratitude monday 7/12
Monday morning, another gray and chilly bay area summer morning. Sunshine will probably hit around noon. I love this summer weather.
The garden is ridiculously abundant. I mean, really, look at that zucchini. As big as Avery’s torso. As big as my thigh. Totally not my style…This belongs to another of the gardeners in our little ...Read more.
Gratitude Wednesday 7/7
Beginner mind. Beginner mind.
Right.
Reporting utter failure. Oh yes.
I walk into an intermediate t’ai chi class after sixteen years solo practice. Which followed twenty years as a student, then apprentice, then teacher in a t’ai chi school in NY.
I had asked the owner of the new t’ai chi school to please let me into his push ...Read more.
GratiTuesday July 6th
It is another gray and chilly morning. I love bay area summers. Sweats and a flannel shirt.
The fourth of July has come and gone. My strategy of two movies on the 4th worked just fine. The booms and smell of gunpowder were ebbing by the time I got home around midnight.
Morning musings…
I’m in an interesting ...Read more.
gratitude Friday 7/2
Beginner mind. Beginner mind. What a wonderful concept. I am so grateful that Christian planted this fruitful seed in me. Helps so much for this know-it-all. After 20+ years of study of t’ai chi, including over ten years of teaching, and years of push hands and advanced classes and sword form—after all that, I left ...Read more.
